I’m excited that my colleague Yvonne and I are going to be sharing some of our methods and practice at the upcoming IA Summit. Here’s what our one day session is going to cover:
Accelerator workshops compress work that could take weeks or even months into a matter of days. Using rapid facilitation techniques, practitioners can […]

Here’s an incomplete draft of my take on the 2007 Business and Design Landscape (pdf). As an update to my previous 2005 / 2006 versions of the business design playing field, this includes not just consulting firms, but also schools, events, publications, and corporate groups.
It also loses the rating scale of business vs. design mindshare […]

Talking with Bruce Sterling at IDEA last October, one thing he said struck me. He said that he had stopped writing science fiction for the most part, and that he mostly wrote design fiction nowdays…”not that people really can tell the difference”. It’s an interesting thought - given the focus that we have on scenarios, […]

Thanks to my friend and former colleague Dominique Yu I saw this great compilation of visual methods to help with thinking…Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. One thing that’s particularly interesting is how few of the methods support divergent thinking.